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- Publication Date
- 2018-03-15
- Pages
- 294
- ISBN
- 9781501710704
- Book Title
- Populating the Novel : Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Political Science
- Topic
- History & Theory, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 294 Pages
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From the teeming streets of Dickens's London to the households of domestic fiction, nineteenth-century British writers constructed worlds crammed beyond capacity with human life. In Populating the Novel, Emily Steinlight contends that rather than simply reflecting demographic growth, such pervasive literary crowding contributed to a seismic...
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
1501710702
ISBN-13
9781501710704
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237993744
Product Key Features
Book Title
Populating the Novel : Literary Form and the Politics of Surplus Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Literary Criticism, Political Science
Number of Pages
294 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pr868.P683s74 2018
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Populating the Novel is an extremely accomplished and wide-ranging monograph that contributes forcefully to the field of nineteenth-century novel studies. The argument that the multitude, not the individual, is the focus of nineteenth-century fiction takes criticism in an exciting new direction., A work of scholarship that fulfills and exceeds the multitude of promises contained in its title. After describing and delineating the overcrowded demographics of Romantic and Victorian writing, Steinlight makes a provocative claim about population: in an age of efflorescence of biopolitical principles and quantitative social science, population becomes a political, economic, sociological, and, above all, literary problem., While England's population more than tripled during the nineteenth century, the congested narratives of this era's fiction do not simply reflect demographic change. Instead, as Steinlight powerfully contends, they turn that reality into a pressing political problem that exposes the limits of social and political institutions to contain, manage, and care for the biological life of the populace., Populating the Novel is a compelling, thought-provoking work of criticism. Steinlight's reading of traditional narratives in the nineteenth century helps redefine pre-existing ideas about the novel's cultural role while simultaneously considering how its form was heavily influenced by demographics. This significant contribution to scholarship helps reimagine life in the aggregate while demonstrating a unique approach to socio-political aspects of the English novel., Steinlight's study moves across a truly impressive array of materials and does so without ever sacrificing close attention to the particular texts under consideration. The book moves fluently beyond the rigid periodizations that continue to govern the professional life of nineteenth-century scholars., Populating the Novel is an impressive and thought-provoking work. It lays down a gauntlet to other scholars for further examination of biopower and surplus in nineteenth-century literature and culture., This is a magnificent book, elegantly conceived and luminously executed. Steinlight identifies an original, striking, multifaceted thematic thread uniting the major works of the period: the figure of excess population. Populating the Novel is an enormously important, fruitful, and relevant book, and Steinlight meticulously turns every stone in pursuing it., Analyzing the politics and form of nineteenth-century crowds, masses, aggregates, and novels, Emily Steinlight shows how the period responded to the idea of an increasing--and increasingly difficult to conceptualize--population. Her book deftly reveals the many ways in which poets, theorists, and novelists, from Wordsworth to Hardy, sought to accommodate an ostensible surplus of life, at the same time enfolding numerous readers in their representations., Steinlight's study moves across a truly impressive array of materials and does so without ever sacrificing close attention to the particular texts under consideration... The book moves fluently beyond the rigid periodizations that continue to govern the professional life of nineteenth-century scholars., Populating the Novel is a tremendously impressive book. Steinlight expertly demonstrates how thoroughly the Victorians--famous for their 'individualism'--conceived of human life in the aggregate. Her book will quickly become a touchstone in nineteenth-century literary studies, and the definitive study of biopolitics in Victorian fiction.
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2017-027639
Dewey Decimal
823.809353
Dewey Edition
23
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